Laptop Temperature

[Alix]

Hi everyone I load chrome browser and watch YouTube it's laggy it does eventually stop sometimes. 

 

I have updated all my drivers I have noticed my temperatures reach around 45 and maximum 50 Celsius. 

 

My laptop is a Processor: Intel® Celeron® Processor N2840 upgraded it to 8 gigs of ram and upgraded it to a SSD. My processor speed is 2.58 GHz

 

Would this be causing the problem?

[ToboRobot]

50C shouldn't be a temperature problem.  It's a ten year old Celeron which is not very fast.

[Average Nerd]

4 minutes ago, Alix said:

I have updated all my drivers I have noticed my temperatures reach around 45 and maximum 50 Celsius. 

That is a completey normal and safe temperature for a CPU, themperatures only become a problem when you reach between 90 and 100°C, at which point the CPU would throttle to save itself.

 

6 minutes ago, Alix said:

I load chrome browser and watch YouTube it's laggy it does eventually stop sometimes. 

You are running a 10 year old 7,5W dual-core CPU (with very unimpressive clockspeeds I might add), of course that would struggle with pretty much everything nowadays.

[Alix]

Thanks for replying but surely 2 core cpu and a clock speed of 2.58GHZ should be able to run YouTube without any problems? 

[Average Nerd]

9 minutes ago, Alix said:

Thanks for replying but surely 2 core cpu and a clock speed of 2.58GHZ should be able to run YouTube without any problems? 

No, sadly not. 2,58GHz is really low for a max. clockspeed, even basic newer processors can go up to 3,5 or even 4 GHz, "gaming-grade" CPUs can reach over 5GHz on max turbo.

Edit: I should probably also say that simply the age of your CPU is playing a big role here, a new dual core CPU would be much faster than yours, even though the performance would still not be good in comparison to pretty much everything else.

Edited February 17, 2024 by Average Nerd

[Alix]

Sounds like a daft question but I don't play games on my laptop so when I buy a new laptop.

 

What's the minimum and maximum spec I should look out for in CPU speed and intel generation , Ram , graphics cards and anything else I missed out. Thanks

[Average Nerd]

7 minutes ago, Alix said:

Sounds like a daft question but I don't play games on my laptop so when I buy a new laptop.

 

What's the minimum and maximum spec I should look out for in CPU, Ram , graphics cards and anything else I missed out. Thanks

You might want to create a topic in the Prebuilt/Laptop subforum, since I'm not really the best person to answer that.

https://linustechtips.com/forum/88-laptops-and-pre-built-systems/

[Alix]

Thanks